Microwaved Easter Cheese (a.k.a Hrudka, Sirek)

 

If you’d rather spend your time decorating eggs than stirring a pot, test your spirit of adventure on this recipe for microwaved hrudka.   Let me know if it works….

Thank you Andrea Zober for sharing your recipe.

12 Eggs, slightly beaten

1 Qt. of milk 


1/2 Tsp. vanilla 
Sugar to taste (between 1-5 Tbsp.) 


Pinch of salt -You can adjust seasonings as you are used to making.

Combine the above ingredients
Take 3 Qt Microwave safe container. (Andrea uses the large container from the Tupperware Stack Cooker)  Spray with non stick spray. 

Put the egg mixture in the container. Cover.

Microwave for 3 minutes on  High

(After 3 minutes you can add 1/4 cup of white raisins)

Microwave for 4 minutes on High

NOTE:  a 1250 watt microwave is the same as a 650 degree oven.  Cooking times vary by wattage.

Take out check to see if it is puffed and almost dry.  While you have a little of moisture left, take out and place in cheesecloth.  Squeeze out as much liquid as you can,  Will be very HOT.  Hang to drip and dry for several hours.  This will form the round ball.   Place in warm oven to brown off.

(Written by Maryann Sivak.  Email:  ms@c-rs.org.)

Carpatho-Rusyn Folk Costumes

Though a small area roughly  the  size of West Virginia, the Carpatho-Rusyn homeland, known as Carpatho-Rus’, boasts a wide variety of folk costumes. In Carpatho Rus’, almost every village has its own unique costume style, embroidery patterns and use of colors.

While costumes can be a reflection of influences from other cultures in a border territory like Carpatho-Rus’, the greatest determinant of costume is geography.  What the area is like in which one lives heavily influences  how one dresses – what materials are available locally, what is one’s concept of personal space and what the weather is like.

Let’s first talk about other influences. For instance, among the Carpatho-Rusyns,  those living in Spish and upper Sharysh Counties (today in Slovakia) lived alongside German immigrants who came to mine  the area and make glass. They brought with them lace making, brocade and the batik process for putting patterns in cloth. All of these are used in some of the Rusyn costumes of those regions.

Now let’s discuss weather. Rusyn who lived in the high mountains needed warmer clothing than those in the lowlands around  Kosice, Trebisov and Michalovce(all today in Slovakia). The lowlanders  grew flax and made much of their clothing from its refinement – linen. Highlanders relied on wool as a clothing staple- based upon the need to stay warm.

A key determinant in not only choice of fabric but also style of clothing and color was topography. Among the Carpatho-Rusyns, those living in the lowlands of the Danubian Basin (today Slovakia, Hungary and the very southwest  tip of Ukraine), have wide and open costumes. Men have wide bodied shirts with wide sleeves and wide, fringed pant legs. Women have broad skirts with large pleats. Color in these areas includes a wide array, with a lot of use of red, blue, purple and black.

  

For Rusyns living in the high Carpathian Mountains in the East (today in Ukraine) where there is little room and therefore , the concept of little personal space(the space right around you), costuming cuts close to the body. Women’s skirts are tight and unpleated. Sleeves are long, tighter fitting, and the neck of the blouse is close and high. A woman’s costume is without frills. It is beautiful but practical in a place where it is harder to grow flax for linen and where sheep’s wool is the least expensive and most plentiful clothing material. Men’s costumes are likewise close fitting and mostly made of wool. The colors that predominate here are much earthier – red, orange, brown and green.

Perhaps the most characteristic feature of Carpatho-Rusyn folk costumes is their embroidery. Regardless of village, every Rusyn folk costume sports some type of embroidery as its ornamentation, with particular patterns used in particular regions. These patterns were not chosen by Rusyn peasants as something “pretty” to adorn their clothing. They are ancient mystical patterns which , like Amish hex signs, were meant to ward off evil or assure the wearer certain things –a bountiful harvest, good health, or a host of children!   One familiar with Rusyn embroidery can look at the pattern on a man’s shirt or the trim of a woman’s skirt and know what region or county within Carpatho-Rus’ the costume comes from.

The costumes of the Carpatho-Rusyns, so detailed , ornate and colorful, are one of the gems our distinct Carpatho-Rusyn culture.

Written by: John J. Righetti, C-RS President.  Email: president@c-rs.org

Copuyright 2003 John J. Righetti,  Carpatho-Rusyn Society

Third Annual Studium Carpato-Ruthenorum

Students and Faculty of the First Studium Carpato-Ruthenorum, 2010

This summer will see an opportunity that no lover of things Rusyn should miss.  From June 10 - July 1, 2012, the Institute for Rusyn Language and Culture at Prešov University, Slovakia, will host its third annual Studium Carpato-Ruthenorum.

In the mornings Carpatho-Rusyn history will be taught in Rusyn and English by internationally-recognized authorities like Prof. Paul Robert Magoci of the University of Toronto.

Rusyn language classes will be held after lunch.  The instructors will be faculty members of Prešov University and  Wright State University.  Classes will be conducted in the Rusyn tongue.

Following these sessions, students will enjoy numerous excursions into Rusyn culture.  They will observe wax-resist egg decorating, learn folk songs and absorb Rusyn folklore. Field trips are planned to the Warhol Museum in Medzilaborce and the Svidnik Open Air Museum.  Class members will visit Stara Lubovna Castle and several wooden churches which are designated UNESCO world heritage sites.  They will even get to float down the Dunajec River on a raft.

Space is limited and time is short.  For further information and an application, please visit our website at www.c-rs.org.

(Written by Maryann Sivak.  Email:  ms@c-rs.org)

START LEARNING RUSYN THE EASY WAY 
by Nancy Revak (nsrevak@aol.com)


IT'S FINALLY HERE!!  The first edition of Introduction to Rusyn Language and Culture will be
available shortly after the first of the year.  It was a long time in the making, but it was well worth the wait.  English speakers will now have an easy way to start learning to read, write and speak the Rusyn language on their own.   
 
What Took So Long? 
In case you're wondering, this is how it happened.  For more than 10 years, I had been working on behalf of C-RS to find ways to provide Rusyn language instruction—consistently a top request of C-RS members.  I researched endless possibilities—from providing classes locally, to conducting webinars, to developing a sophisticated, computer-based course through Rosetta Stone.  But all had obstacles that made them unfeasible—the major ones being cost and finding a native Rusyn language speaker who could also teach Rusyn to English speakers.  
   
In 2007, I met with Halina Malecka, a native Lemko Rusyn and high school Russian-language teacher who had been successfully teaching the Rusyn language to young schoolchildren and teens in Gorlice, Poland, for several years.  Halina agreed to develop a similar course for C-RS.  And in June 2008, she conducted the Rusyn Language Study Abroad program at the Ruska Bursa in Gorlice.  Student feedback about the course and Halina's teaching was overwhelmingly positive.  
   
With Halina's permission, I presented her 45-page student workbook and accompanying CD
demonstrating correct pronunciation to C-RS, proposing that we use them as the basis for developing our own elementary self-study course.  

After careful consideration, C-RS agreed.   Attorney Jim Kaminski (C-RS Vice President) and I  worked out a licensing agreement with Halina giving C-RS permission to use her work to develop a course for English speakers in North America.  Being a professional writer and instructional designer with many years experience developing self-study courses in the corporate world, I volunteered to develop the course for C-RS. 
 
Jim Murray, a retired language professor and linguist with a flair for the Rusyn language, volunteered to be the Rusyn-language subject-matter expert.  He and I were both educators.  And we both had attended Halina's class in Gorlice (and would later attend the 2010 Rusyn summer school in Presov, Slovakia).  So we had first-hand knowledge of the difficulties beginners had learning the Rusyn language. 

Instead of a scholarly work, the self-study course would be aimed at ordinary people who simply wanted an easy way to begin learning the basics of the Rusyn language without the need for an instructor.  Since Rusyns write in the Cyrillic alphabet, not the transliterated Latin alphabet found in some publications, the focus would be on teaching Rusyn Cyrillic—both printed and handwritten (cursive).  The course also had to be applicable for anyone wanting to learn the Rusyn language, regardless of the variant (Lemko, Presov, Transcarpathian, or Vojvodinian/Pannonian).  

The first thing Jim and I did was try to recall the things Halina had taught in class beyond what was in her workbook.  Then I set about redesigning the workbook, reorganizing some of the original content, creating a new layout and formatting to make it appropriate for self-study, and designing a new cover.
 
To set the stage, I decided to write a section about the Carpatho-Rusyns, their history and culture.  But first, I researched numerous books, articles and websites to collect information and interesting details not often addressed. 

Most beginners struggle with learning the Rusyn language simply because they don't know the Rusyn alphabet well enough.  So I developed a section devoted entirely to learning the Rusyn alphabet first, before embarking on the language lessons.  This foundation would enable learners to more easily recognize the Rusyn Cyrillic letters and sound them out so they could focus on learning words and their meanings instead of getting hung up on the alphabet. 
  
Next, I worked on expanding the language lessons by adding more topics, more information about the Rusyn language, many more words, more practice exercises, and important instructional material.  Jim provided the Rusyn grammar; verified the accuracy of all the Rusyn words, their spellings and meanings; and translated the reading passages from Rusyn into English.  To build the vocabulary, I sometimes gave Jim Rusyn words to verify.  Other times, I just gave him a list of English words, and he supplied the Rusyn words.  Every time, he referred to his various Rusyn language dictionaries, grammars and other resources to make sure everything was correct. 
    
Unfortunately, developing the course presented some unanticipated technical difficulties.  For instance: 

• To develop the new workbook, I had to work from the electronic version of the original workbook.  But the original had been created in a Polish language version of Microsoft Word and contained Rusyn fonts and styles not available in my English version of Word.  

•  We received the original workbook in PDF format, which had to be converted to be used.  But the conversion presented other problems.  The document retained its original formatting, fonts and macros, which could not be deleted and conflicted with what I had set up.  Many of the Cyrillic printed and written examples didn't convert and were lost.  So they had to be recreated.  For some unknown reason, big blocks of text would suddenly drop off and the formatting would go crazy.  As a result, I lost a lot of valuable time repeatedly re-entering lost text. fixing formatting and font errors, and cutting and pasting.     

•  Not having access to the original software, keyboard and fonts, I was unable to enter Rusyn text as words and sentences.  Instead, I had to look up all the Cyrillic letters as symbols and insert them individually—one symbol at a time.  Not a speedy way to type.

•  The Rusyn words pronounced on the CD referred to the unit and exercise numbers in the original workbook.  Since I couldn't change the CD or exercise numbers, I had to figure out how to add new topics, exercises, grammar and vocabulary without messing up the numbers on the CD. 

Development took a long time and many drafts. There was a lot of pressure to get the course completed faster.  But Jim and I were not willing to compromise quality for expedience—especially after all the time and effort we had expended trying to get things right.  We refused to put out something we wouldn't be proud of. 

Finally, in October 2011, I sent a complete mock-up of the course to John Righetti (C-RS President) to review and present at the C-RS Annual Meeting.  Even though the workbook was not yet perfect, the response was terrific.  John has since edited the workbook (with Mrs. Michalina Mihalasky verifying the Rusyn words), and I am starting to make the necessary revisions.  With time off for the holidays, I expect to have the final course ready to go in the beginning of 2012. 

What's So Special About The C-RS Course?
Introduction to Rusyn Language and Culture is the first Rusyn language course of its kind.  In addition to being a self-study, it has a CD recorded by native Rusyn speakers that demonstrates correct pronunciation.  So you can easily start learning to read, write and speak the Rusyn language and building a sizeable Rusyn vocabulary. 

• Here are some of the other course highlights.    Significantly Expanded Workbook.  The new workbook has more than six times the learning content of the original workbook, including a much larger vocabulary.

•  Carpatho-Rusyn Background.  The information about the Rusyn people, their history and culture paints a colorful backdrop that makes the language lessons more meaningful.  It covers Rusyn life from early times, under serfdom, during World Wars I and II, under communist rule, to the present day. It also addresses the Lemko resettlements to Ukraine and Akcja Wisla.  

•  Easy-to-Follow Language Lessons.  The language lessons are organized into eight units, and each unit contains a number of exercises with easy-to-follow instructions.  The exercises are like building blocks. They not only introduce you to something new, but they also reinforce things you learned previously.   Just as importantly, you can progress at your own pace, studying as few or as many lessons at a time as you like.   

• Learning to Read, Write and Pronounce Rusyn Cyrillic.   A lot of attention is paid up front to learning to read, write and pronounce each letter of the Rusyn Cyrllic alphabet correctly.  The objective is to help you link each letter to its sound automatically.  Before you know it, reading, writing and pronouncing Rusyn starts to become second nature.  

•  Words in Cyrillic, Transliterated and English.  Even though the course focuses on teaching you to read, write and pronounce Rusyn Cyrillic—both printed and handwritten (cursive) —their transliterated spellings are also shown for pronunciation reference.  So when new Rusyn words are introduced, they are shown in Cyrillic, transliterated Latin, and English.

•  Repetition, Repetition, Repetition.  A considerable amount of repetition is purposely given to writing and pronouncing the Rusyn letters and words.  This repetition is extremely important.  It's what helps you learn to recognize and pronounce the letters without thinking and memorize the words.     

•  Rusyn Language Bookmark.  This specially designed learning aid has the Rusyn alphabet printed on one side.  Each Cyrillic letter is shown in its printed and written forms (both upper and lower case) along with its pronunciation.  So you can use it to mark your place as you progress through the course as well as a quick alphabet reference if you get stuck.

•  Audio CD.  The CD lets you hear the correct pronunciation of Rusyn words found in some of the exercises.  Hearing the words and repeating them helps you perfect your own pronunciation.  You can get more practice pronouncing the words you've learned by listening to the CD in your car or on your CD player or iPod. The CD also includes some traditional Rusyn songs whose lyrics are in the workbook.  So you can have fun learning the songs as you sing along. 

•  Extensive Rusyn Vocabulary.  Approximately 1,000 Rusyn words are taught in the course.  They include words for people, places, and things (objects, foods, plants, animals, etc.), as well as greetings, expressions, emotions, attitudes, personal characteristics and more.  There are even examples of typical Rusyn first names (male and female) and surnames.  

•  Grammar Where Needed.  The information on Rusyn grammar helps you understand Rusyn syntax (word order) and gives you examples of the declension patterns of nouns and conjugation patterns of verbs.  To make learning easier for beginners, the course focuses on Rusyn in the nominative (dictionary) case and present tense.  

•  Rusyn Traditions.  Rusyn traditions, such as Easter and the Christmas Eve Holy Supper, are described in detail in the language lessons.  This makes the language come alive.  Besides learning the appropriate greetings for these important Rusyn celebrations, you learn the names of the various foods, their descriptions and significance.    

•  Reading Passages.  Sample dialogs, poems and sayings give you practice reading, writing and speaking Rusyn in sentences, phrases and paragraphs.  Their English translations help you understand their general meanings.   

•  Self-Checks.  These are sprinkled throughout the exercises so you can periodically check to see how you're doing.  They also help you identify any trouble spots you may need to go back and study again later.

•  Answer Key.  This contains the correct answers to exercises so you can check your own answers against them.   

•  Traditional Rusyn Songs and Prose.  There are more than a dozen of them.  The Rusyn lyrics are also shown in English, thanks to Jerry Jumba.  A number of the songs are on the CD so you can learn to sing them.    

•  Bibliography.  All the books, articles, and websites used to research content for the course and information about the Rusyn language are listed here.  The list also serves as suggested reading if you want to learn more about the Carpatho-Rusyns and their language.  

What's next?
Depending on the success of Introduction to Rusyn Language and Culture, C-RS will consider developing one or more follow-on options.  One idea is to produce a glossary/dictionary of the Rusyn words found in Introduction to Rusyn Language and Culture and their meanings.  Another is to develop an intermediate self-study course that builds on Introduction to Rusyn Language and Culture, focuses on Rusyn conversation, and covers the other cases and tenses.   

There is a questionnaire at the back of Introduction to Rusyn Language and Culture workbook.  Learners are asked to complete and return it to C-RS with their feedback about the course and suggestions for additional language instruction.  So we will have to wait and see.     

Tim Cuprisin

January 14, 1958-November 23, 2011

Vicnija Pamjat.  Eternal Memory.

 

Tim Cuprisin, president and founding father of the Lake Michigan Chapter of the Carpatho-Rusyn Society and creator of its blog, passed away Wednesday, November 23 at home.  

At the age of 20, the Chicago native graduated from the University of Central Michigan in 1978. He started his career as a police reporter at Chicago’s City News Bureau then moved on to the Green Bay Press-Gazette and USA Today before going to the Milwaukee Journal in 1986.   Included in his assignments were covering the impact of the fall of the Berlin Wall and communism on six Eastern European countries.  His long-time fascination with television programs led to a daily TV and radio column in the Milwaukee Journal (now the Journal Sentinel).  In 2009, he took his writing talents to OnMilwaukee.com.

On March 13, 2010, Tim met with 15 people from Northwest Indiana, the Greater Chicago area and Wisconsin at the Polish Museum in Chicago to create the Lake Michigan Chapter of the Carpatho-Rusyn Society.  With his vast knowledge of his Carpatho-Rusyn heritage, Tim was unanimously elected president.  The first event of the new chapter in June 2010 drew 104 people to hear National C-RS President John Righetti’s talk “Who are the Rusyns?”.  According to Righetti, it was a record number for a first-time event held by any of its chapters.  

In the year and a half since that first public meeting, more than 300 people have attended at least one event sponsored by the chapter.  Those events include hosting the author of The Linden and the Oak Mark Wansa for the first celebration of Carpatho-Rusyn Day, newly instituted by the World Council of Rusyns in 2010.  Other undertakings of the organization include a genealogy workshop focusing on Eastern European resources and a pysanky workshop where attendees learned how to turn eggs in works of art using wax, a stylus and dye just as their ancestors had done in “The Old Country”.   Conversations at the Rusyn New Year’s potluck luncheon focused what was or wasn’t on the attendees' Christmas Eve Holy Supper table now or when they were growing up.  Pagach and pirohi were a big hit and quickly disappeared.

Tim's last appearance

Tim’s last public appearance was at the Lake Michigan Chapter’s Carpatho-Rusyn Day luncheon in October which celebrated 100 plus years of Rusyns in Northwest Indiana and recognition of the 100^th anniversaries of St. Michael Byzantine Catholic Church and Protection of the Virgin Mary Orthodox Church.  An avid collector of all things related to his ethnic background, his presentation featured early 20^th century photographs of Rusyn immigrant life, the six churches they founded around the tip of Lake Michigan and a Pepsi Cola ad with the sales pitch in Rusyn.  History Professor Jim Lane of Indiana University Northwest and the Northwest Indiana Archives explained what brought the immigrants to northwest Indiana, far from their arrival ports on the east coast.

Tim’s determination to preserve his ethnic identity and his access to media resources led him to create the chapter’s blog which features news about Rusyns here and abroad. The hunger of Carpatho-Rusyns for information about their heritage and what was happening to other Rusyns brought hits from across the globe.  The Lake Michigan Chapter board will continue the blog.

At the time of his death, Tim was also working on a book about Andy Warhol, a world-renowned Rusyn artist, as well as a murder mystery set in Chicago.

Tim is survived by his brothers John, Ken and Dave, a sister Elaine Black and his partner Sharon Boeldt as well as numerous nieces and nephews.  He was preceded in death by his parents John and Helen (Cordak) Cuprisin and niece Leslie Cuprisin.

A celebration of his life held Saturday, December 3 brought about 200 people to the Schmidt and Bartelt Funeral Home in Mequon, Wisconsin.  Speakers included his brother Ken, Fr. Thomas Mueller of St. Cyrill and Methodius Orthodox Church in Milwaukee, friends Jim Rowan, Andy Tarnoff and Meg Kissinger and his god daughter, Molly Boynton.  Carpatho-Rusyn Society Lake Michigan Chapter members Fr. William Conjelko and Fr. John Lucas closed the memorial with leading the singing of the traditional Rusyn funeral hymn Vicnija Pamjat/Eternal Memory.

Donations to a media scholarship in Tim’s name may be directed to the Hoffman York Foundation, 1000 N. Water St., Suite 1600, Milwaukee, WI, 53202.  Donations in his name may also be made to Mayo Clinic's Melanoma Research Program at www.mayoclinic.org/development or mailed to Department of Development, Mayo Clinic, 200 First St. SW, Rochester, MN 55905.

On January 14, 2012, the Lake Michigan Chapter will pay tribute to its first president at its annual Rusyn New Year Potluck.  Details will be posted on this blog.

(Copied from the Lake Michigan blog with the permission of Charlotte Pribish Conjelko, President of C-RS Lake Michigan Chapter)

NEW RUSYN BIBLE

2011 marks the 400th anniversary of the publication of the King James Version of the Bible in 1611.  The project was the undertaking of the new House of Stuart which sought to put its stamp on English cultural, religious  and political life.  It was also intended to end a centuries-old debate about whether English (not Latin or French) was the accepted language of educated communication in England.  To accomplish this, James I launched the 17th Century equivalent of the Manhattan Project, by assembling a team of 54 linguists, historians and theologians from Cambridge and Oxford who worked virtually full time for eight years.  Most of the participants were from Southeastern England which gave the final product a distinct regional flavor.

A slightly more modest effort was recently completed to produce a parallel product in Carpatho-Rusyn.  A team composed of Dr. Anna Plišková of the University of Prešov , Fr. František Krajňák of the Slovak Association of Rusyn Organizations and Josif Kudzej, translated the Gospels from Church Slavonic into what might be called the Prešov standard of written Rusyn.  The project was commissioned by the World Rusyn Congress and the published volume is 1048 pages in length with both Cyrillic and Latin alphabet sections (ISBN 978-80-88-769-92-7).

The work which was completed in 2009 will settle some debates and no doubt precipitate  fresh ones about the grammatical useages and vocabulary choices of Krajňák and Kudzej, who are after all, from different villages (Kamjunka and Njagiv, respectively).  Nonetheless, the translation of a major piece of world literature signifies that Rusyn is no longer a gaggle of dialects but is firmly on the road to literary standardization . 

C-RS would like to express its appreciation to Karen Varian, President of the Rusin Society of Minnesota, for making this important work available to us. 

Written by:  John Schweich, C-RS trustee.

You Might Be a Rusyn....

If you are a bit fuzzy on your exact ethnicity, but know that your ethnic origins are somewhere in Eastern Europe, there is a good chance that...well, you might be a Rusyn. Since there has never been a European state with which Rusyns could identify, and because the Soviet Union refused to recognize Rusyns as a distinct national group, many Rusyn descendents in North America are confused about their ethnicity. In fact, when many "Ukrainians" and "Russians" engage in genealogical research, they often find that their ancestors came from Rusyn villages located in present-day Poland, Slovakia or Transcarpathia, rather than from Ukraine or Russia. Pictured above (left to right) are John Righetti (C-RS President) along with John Schweich and Elaine Rusinko (C-RS trustees.) They have kindly compiled a list that may help you to determine whether or not you are, in fact, a Rusyn. Any additional criteria submitted by our readership would be greatly appreciated!

**************************************************************************************************************** You might be a Rusyn if......

• Your family identified their nationality by some vague term such as "Slavic" or "Slavish";

• Your family identified as Rusnak, Carpatho-Russian, Carpatho-Ukrainian, or Lemko;

• Your family told you, "Well, we're not really Russian, not exactly Slovak....."

• Your family called themselves "Russian" or "Ukrainian" but could read only the Latin alphabet;

• Your family called themselves "Slovak" but worshiped at a Byzantine (Greek) Catholic church;

• Your family worshiped at a Byzantine Catholic church and the priest called them "Ruthenian";

• You can be no more specific about your origins than to say that your ancestors came from Austria-Hungary or Galicia or later, Czechoslovakia;

• Your ancestor's immigration documents say he or she was "Ruthenian" or from "Austria-Hungary;

• Your ancestors came from the Carpathian mountains - Poland, Slovakia, or Ukraine

• Your grandparents spoke a language they didn't really have a name for. Perhaps they called it "Hillbilly Russian" or referred to it as po-nashomu (literally meaning "in our way");

• Your ancestors immigrated from Eastern Europe to the northeastern US and found work in the coal mines and steel mills of Pennsylvania and Ohio, or in the factories of New Jersey and Connecticut

• Your ancestors immigrated between 1890 and World War I and your family worshiped at what is now a Russian or Ukrainian Orthodox church

• You eat bobalki and pirohy on Christmas Eve

• You eat hrudka (Easter cheese) and a bread called paska at Easter

• You make Easter eggs decorated with wax and teardrop shapes

• You dance the czardas and polkas at weddings. Does the music sound familiar here: http://c-rs.org/RadioPgm/

• You like kyselica and holubky

• Grandma and Grandpa are "Baba" and "Dido"

• The language spoken by either you or your family members (or both) reportedly sounds archaic or "old fashioned" to Slovaks, Poles or Ukrainians

If any of these clues strike a chord, we strongly encourage you to check out the Carpatho-Rusyn Society (C-RS). We welcome all Rusyns and those who "might be a Rusyn" to join C-RS. In addition to being a lot of fun, C-RS membership a great way to get information about Rusyns in the European homeland and US, gain assistance and support with genealogy, and learn more about Rusyn culture.

More information is available on our website at www.c-rs.org. We look forward to welcoming new members!